Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Morning warm up


Let’s imagine:

There is a cat, a magnet and a performance. Next to the performance you can see a bottle of vodka sitting on a bar.
There is a magnet, a performance and a bottle of vodka. Next to the bottle of vodka you can see a cat sitting on a bar.
There is a bottle of vodka, a magnet and a cat. Next to the cat you can see a performance sitting on a bar.


But we don’t give a damn because we are only interested in the bottle of vodka.


Let’s return:

There is a cat, a magnet, a bottle of vodka. Next to a bottle of vodka there is a performance sitting on a bar.

Here is a good time to mention one of the equation that I am working on:

Number one is standing and blinking her eyes. Number two appears to replace the first one, but by mistake trips over her own shoe, falls down on the floor and looses her consciousness. Number three appears to replace number two, but doesn’t notice her lying on the floor and therefore tries to replace number one. Number one gets confused, quits her something action, but doesn’t swear; instead she tries to take herself into hands or gather herself together. Namely, number one tries to connect with number three and that way pick up number two from the floor to make her stand so that the system could function. But because number two lost her consciousness, once on her feet she immediately falls back down. The hopeless attempt of number one continues for quite a while.

Here I remembered that I had to go and buy some cigarettes.
Besides, we don’t give a damn because we are only interested in the bottle of vodka.



Another part appears:

There is a magnet, a bottle of vodka and a performance. Next to a performance you can see a cat sitting on the bar.

But take note of the fact that behind a cat there is nothing. It's not that there isn't a cupboard there, or a chest of drawers, or at any rate some such object: but there is absolutely nothing there, not even air. 
Believe it or not, as you please, but behind a cat’s back there is not even an airless expanse, or as they say, universal ether. To put it bluntly, there's nothing. 
This is, of course, utterly inconceivable.


Once again, from the beginning:

There is a magnet, a bottle of vodka and a cat. Next to a cat you can see a performance sitting on the bar.


Now the time has come to say that not only behind a performance, but before it as well -- as it were, in front of it -- and all the way around it, there is nothing.  A complete absence of any kind of existence, or, an absence of any kind of presence.


There is a performance, a bottle of vodka and a cat. Next to a cat there is a magnet sitting on the bar.

But, anyway, what are we talking about? Surely we said that inside, as well as outside a magnet nothing exists. So if both inside and outside nothing exists, then that means that the bottle as well doesn't exist. Isn't that it?      
But, on the other hand, take note of the following: if we are saying that nothing exists either inside or outside, then the question arises: inside and outside of what? Something evidently, all the same, does exist? Or perhaps doesn't exist. In which case, why do we keep saying 'inside' and 'outside'? No, here we have patently reached an impasse.  And we ourselves don't know what to say.      
Goodbye for now.


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